Interview: Fannie Hutchinson, June 25, 1984

Interview: Fannie Hutchinson, June 25, 1984

African American families

African Americans--Employment.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Migration, Internal.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions.

African Americans--Southern States.

African Americans--Politics and government.

African American churches

Depressions--1929.

United States--Race relations.

Born and raised on a sharecroppers' farm near Petersburg, Virginia, Fannie Hutchinson (1905-1990) was one of sixteen children. In her 1984 interview, Hutchinson spoke of how she started to work at the age of thirteen to help support her family, her move to Philadelphia in 1926, the limits placed upon her by an overprotective uncle, and her experiences as a servant and factory worker. By the 1940s she owned her own grocery and luncheonette in West Philadelphia.

1984-06-25

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Charles Hardy

Fannie Hutchinson

African Americans--Education.

African American leadership

African American clergy.

House cleaning.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs.